Easel-shelf bracket



(No Model.)

T. P. WATKINS.

EASEL SHELF BRACKET. 7 No; 334,065. Patented Jan. 12, 1886.

%JAS 152 11222101 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS P. WATKINS, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

EASEL-SH ELF BRACKET.

i-KPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,065, dated January 12, 1886.

Application filed July 31, 1885. Serial No. 173,120. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. WATKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful EaselShelf Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for attaching an easel-shelf to the uprights of the easel, and has for its object to provide an attaching device whereby the shelf can be easily and instantly adjusted to any desired height, or can be'removed from the uprights, so as to be capable of packing more closely for shipment. I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a view in perspective of an easel with the shelf attached to the uprights by means of my device; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the easel, showing the shelf tilted up preparatory to' being readjusted in a new position or removed from the easel.

In Fig. 1, 1 represents an easel, to the shelf 12 of which are fastened the brackets 0 a. The

brackets c c are furnished at their upper ends with projections d, Fig. 2, which projections engage with holes in the back of the uprights a. When it is desired to readjust the shelfat a different height, the frontof the shelf is tilted upward, which motion disengages the projections (1 of the brackets from the holes f in the uprights n, when the shelf can be raised or lowered freely to a new position, or it can be removed entirely from the easel. When the shelf is in position, with the projections d engaging with the holes f, the greater the weight there is on the shelf the more closely and firmly do the brackets clasp the uprights.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

In combination with an easel shelf, the brackets c a, secured to it and projecting upwardly and outwardly, forming an obtuse angle, and their outer ends provided with projections d d, to engage with corresponding holes in the uprights of the easel, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described. T. P. WATKINS. \Vitnesses:

J. N. H. SMITH, J L. HILL. 

